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Download e-book for kindle: America: a narrative history (brief edition) by David E. Shi, George Brown Tindall

February 3, 2018
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By David E. Shi, George Brown Tindall

ISBN-10: 0393903672

ISBN-13: 9780393903676

ISBN-10: 0393912671

ISBN-13: 9780393912678

A e-book scholars love, in a extra concise format.America has bought greater than 1.8 million copies during the last 8 variations simply because it’s a publication that scholars get pleasure from interpreting. potent storytelling, colourful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative soaking up and the cloth extra memorable. The short 9th variation is 20% shorter, and comprises refreshed and up-to-date assurance of African American historical past, and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

This moment quantity in "The american citizens" trilogy bargains with the an important interval of yankee background from the Revolution to the Civil battle. the following we meet the folk who formed, and have been formed through, the yank experience—the flexible New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

On marshy islands on the west side of Lake Tetzcoco, the site of present-day Mexico City, they built Tenochtitlán, a dazzling capital city dominated by towering stone temples, broad paved avenues, thriving markets, and some 70,000 adobe huts. By 1519, when the Spanish landed on the Mexican coast, the Aztecs were one of the most powerful civilizations in the world. Their arts were flourishing; their architecture was magnificent. THE AZTECS Like most agricultural peoples, the Aztecs centered their spiritual beliefs on the cosmic forces of nature.